Hail SATA: Performance SATA Solid State Drive Roundup
We have just posted our Hail SATA: Performance SATA Solid State Drive Roundup. Which one of these SSD is best for you? What specifications and features do you need? Does it even matter? Hit the link to get answers to those question and more.
Despite the performance benefits, PCIe SSDs remain an expensive niche market. That means that most of us are not going to be loading up a high end system with PCIe SSDs. Most of us mere mortals will be using SATA SSDs. We tested some of the best SATA drives with enthusiast-friendly price tags.
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Guide To Speeding Up Your PC's Boot Time
The crew at The SSD Review has published a guide to speeding up your PC's boot time. If booting a powered off system to desktop in under ten seconds sounds like something you are interested in, you'll definitely want to read this.
As you know, many people buy SSDs to not only speed up their computing experience, but also speed up the boot time of their machines. SSDs will sometimes cut minutes off boot times when compared to hard drives, however, more often than not, many people do not know how to properly configure, or even know that it is possible to configure their system in such a way to speed up their boot time even more.
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Netflix Kicks Off Original Film Initiative October 16th
The first of four Netflix original movies will air on October 16th. The other three movies, one from Adam Sandler, will air on or before March 2016.
Netflix announced today the rollout of its original film initiative with Beasts of No Nation, the powerful new film written and directed by Emmy Award winner Cary Fukunaga (True Detective, Sin Nombre) and starring Golden Globe® winner Idris Elba (Luther, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) that will debut Friday, October 16, 2015 worldwide on Netflix, in all territories where the world’s leading Internet TV network is available, and on the same day in select U.S. theaters. U.S. film distribution company Bleecker Street will partner with Netflix to distribute the film to theaters.
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Zotac GTX 980 Ti Amp! Edition 8GB
The gang over at techPowerUP! had a lot of good things to say about the Zotac GTX 980 Ti Amp! Edition 8GB they just reviewed.
ZOTAC's GTX 980 Ti AMP! Edition comes at GTX 980 Ti reference design pricing, which makes it the most affordable GTX 980 Ti custom-design. The card is overclocked out of the box, running faster than GTX Titan X. Zotac is introducing a new all-metal cooler which looks fantastic and reaches great temperatures, too.
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Japan Is Building Solar Farms On Abandoned Golf Courses
I guess this is better than letting all those abandon golf courses go to waste.
Last week, Kyocera and its partners announced they had started construction on a 23-megawatt solar plant project located on an old golf course in the Kyoto prefecture. Scheduled to go operational in September 2017, it will generate a little over 26,000 megawatt hours per year, or enough electricity to power approximately 8,100 typical local households. The electricity will be sold to a local utility.
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Amazon Must Face Trademark Lawsuit Over Search Results
What do you guys think about this? Do you think this company has a case or is it just sour grapes?
MTM Special Ops are a military style model of watches which are not sold on Amazon's web site, according to the court ruling. If an Amazon shopper searches for it, however, Amazon the site will not say it does not carry MTM products. Instead, Amazon displays MTM Special Ops in the search field and immediately below the search field, along with similar watches manufactured by MTM's competitors for sale.
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Facebook To Build New Data Center In Texas
Hey, if you are going to build something big, Texas has plenty of room to do it.
Facebook will invest at least $500 million in the global data center, a spokesperson said, and will employ at least 40 full-time employees. The center will also be powered entirely by renewable energy, Tom Furlong, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure, wrote in a blog post.
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Mood-Changing Wearable Tech Sets Pulses Racing
A wearable device that can change someone's mood by tapping into the body's natural rhythm? And it works on women too?
Doppel is a new breed of wearable device, one that its developers say can actually change the wearer's mood by delivering a tactile beat to their wrist. The makers of 'doppel' call it the next generation of wearable technology - one that can actually change the mood of the user. They say the device taps in to the body's natural rhythm and gives the wearer control over how alert or relaxed they are.
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ASUS Announces The Strix GTX 980 Ti
ASUS today announced the Strix GTX 980 Ti , a super-cool new graphics card with pumped gaming performance, perfected manufacturing, and strong fortification for extreme reliability and longevity. Powered by the latest GeForce® GTX™ 980 Ti graphics-processing units (GPUs), the Strix GTX 980 Ti features GPU boost clock speeds of up to 1291MHz in gaming mode and 1317MHz in OC mode, delivering up to 24% faster gaming performance than reference cards in The Witcher® 3. It is packed with exclusive ASUS technologies, including DirectCU III with a patented triple wing-blade 0dB fan designed to deliver maximum airflow for cooler and quieter performance.
Equipped with ASUS-exclusive DirectCU III cooling technology, the Strix GTX 980 Ti heatsink features two exclusive 10mm direct-GPU-contact heat pipes — outperforming reference designs for gaming performance that's up to 30% cooler. It has three fans engineered with a patented, new wing-blade design that delivers maximum airflow and static pressure over the heat sink — giving a 105% improvement over fans without wing-blades. This exclusive triple wing-blade design operates at noise levels three times (3X) quieter than reference cards, making DirectCU III the coolest and quietest graphics card-cooling solution available to date. The Strix GTX 980 Ti also features 0dB fan technology, which stops fan rotation completely during lighter gaming sessions — eliminating noise for undisturbed gameplay.
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The Best Games On PC
I'm always a bit leery when it comes to posting lists like this because I know you guys are going to want to give your two cents on what did or did not make the list.
Creating and curating a list of the best games on PC is a difficult task, so we've implemented some guidelines to shape our choices. The titles you'll see here were released within the past half dozen years, and they're exclusive to PC or offer a particularly great experience not found on other platforms.
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Amazon Prime Day Is On The Way!
Just a reminder to everyone that Amazon has announced Prime Day! The event kicks off July 15th and, according to the press release, there will be "more deals than Black Friday." Don't have Amazon Prime? Hit the comments link above for a free 30 day trial.
On Wednesday, July 15, new and existing members in the U.S. will find deals starting at midnight, with new deals starting as often as every ten minutes. They can shop thousands of Lightning Deals, seven popular Deals of the Day and receive unlimited fast, free shipping.
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Microsoft Inviting Academics To Create New HoloLens Experiences
Microsoft is offering up some serious cash to the academic community to develop new holographic computing experiences.
We are pleased to announce the Microsoft HoloLens Academic Research request for proposals (RFP), which will enable the academic community to join us in advancing the creation of new holographic computing experiences. The Microsoft HoloLens Academic RFP will award US$100,000 and two HoloLens development kits to academic institutions.
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Another Phantom Console Surfaces On The Internet
I'm not sure why the unearthing of another Phantom console is making news today, we gave you an in-depth look into one almost 11 years ago. I guess you could say we cracked one open twice if you count this:
Some quick Internet sleuthing doesn't turn up any information or photos of any similar Phantom prototypes after the fall of Infinium; these design mockups of the console's shell that popped up in 2010 might be the closest thing. We reached out to a couple of avid game collectors who are constantly looking for rarities like this, and neither of them had ever seen a Phantom prototype out in the wild. The collector that brought this machine in to Schlesinger may have a one-of-a-kind item on his hands.
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